& THEIR TYPES

PRESENTED BY:

Palak Pandoh

What is a Team?

A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, common performance goals, and an approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

Team and team work have emerged popular terms in management circles these days.

A team includes few people, same as a small group, because the interaction and influence processes, vital for a team to function, can only occur when the number of members is small.

When more peoples are involved there will be a difficulty in interacting and influencing each other.

Basically team includes people with mix of skills appropriate to the task to be done. Team members need :

TechnicalProblem solvingDecision makingInter-personal skills However, as the team grows, develops and matures, team members will come to have more of the necessary skills.

Following are the distinct features of teamThey are empowered to share various

management and leadership functions.They plan, control and improve their own work

process.They set their own goals and inspect their own

work.They often create their own schedules and

review their performance as a group.They, and not others outside the team, take

responsibility for the quality of their products or services.

In Team:The performance however depends on both

individual contributions and collective efforts of team members working in concert.

Members work together to produce an outcome that represents their joint contributions and each team member shares responsibility for that outcome.

Team members share a common commitment to purpose.

Teams are free to set their own goals, timing and the approach they wish to adopt without interference from management.

The teams are self-managing and are autonomous.

Types of teamTeams

Work Teams

Problem SolvingTeams

Management Teams

Virtual Teams

1. Work Teams = These are primarily concerned with the work done by the organisation, such as developing and manufacturing new products, providing services for customers, etc. Their principle focus is on using the organization resources effectively. 2. Problem solving teams – These are temporary teams established to attack specific problems in the work place. After solving the problems the team is usually disbanded, allowing members to return to their normal work. These teams are often cross-functional.

3. Management teams – These consist of managers from various areas and co-ordinate work teams. They are relatively permanent. Management teams must concentrate on the teams that have the most impact on overall corporate performance. The primary job of management teams is to coach and counsel other teams to be self managing by making decision within the teams. 4. Virtual teams – These are the teams that may never actually meet together in the same room –their activities takes place on the computer via teleconferencing & other electronic information system. Engineers in the US, for eg: can contact audibly and visually with counterparts all around the globe , sharing files via internet, electronic mail, and other communication networks; all participants can look at the same drawing print, or specifications.

REFERENCESOrganizational Behavior by K. Aswathappa

10th edition.www.wikipedia.com